Using honeybee + radiance with CLI

Just to supplement what @mikkel said here, there is a third method that’s a little bit more streamlined but only works for the recipes that ship with Ladybug Tools for Grasshopper (aka. lbt-recipes).

Method 3: lbt-recipes run (Chris prefers this)
Here are the docs for the command.

It’s very similar to the two other methods @mikkel posted except that you only need the name off the recipe and not the path to a folder with the recipe files. Also, aside from installing Radiance and Python, there are only two steps that you need to get all set up with this workflow:

pip install lbt-dragonfly -U

and then:

pip install lbt-recipes -U

FYI, this is the main page that links to all docs across the entire Ladybug Tools SDK:
https://discourse.ladybug.tools/pub/ladybug-tools-core-sdk-documentation
You will see that lbt-recipes is just one of several libraries that make up the plugin.

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